Needle.



O. VAN B. REEDER.

NEEDLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR 10, 1908.

Patented Feb 23, 1909.

@M/tm we a UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLINTON VAN BURAN REEDER, OF SAN JOSE, CALIBIORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MARGARET ELIZABETH REEDER PATTERSON, OF TRENTON, MISSOURI.

NEEDLE Specification of Letters latent.

Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

Application filed April 16, 1908. Serial No. 427,491.

a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My inv ention relates to needles. The ob ect of the invention is to rovide a needle which will be readily threa ed without searching for the eye thereof.

A further object of the invention is the provision of means for preventing the thread from slip ing out of the e c after the needle is once t readed, which ias been the difficulty with needles of this character.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of means whereby the parts reinforce each other so that the threads will not be taken up entirely by the part holding the oint. 1

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as will be more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claim. I

' .In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a sewing machine needle,. 1 1% 2 is an elevation of a sewing needle.

eferri-ngmore especially to the drawin s,

1 represents the shank of a needle and 2 t e oint thereof. Adjacent the point in a sewmg machine needle and adjacent the head 2 of a sewing needle I provide a diagonal slot 3, which extends back upon itself' as at 4, on the opposite side of the needle and leads into an en arged opening or eye 5, which is oblong in shape and extends back into the shank, as at 6, and forward into the rojection 7, which is separated from the shan to form the slots 3 and 4. The projection or finger which is formed by the cutting away of the material to form the slots 3 and 4 and the eye 5, lies adjacent the shank of the needle as at 9, and is free of the ton e 10, by a slight margin which is consi erably magnified herein.

When the thread is inserted in the slot 3'and passed around the finger or rojection 7 into the slot 4 the point orshan is pulled away from the finger as at 9 and the upper art thereof engages the tongue 10. This al ows the thread to pass back through the opening into the eye 5. The finger 7 then springs back in place against the shank 'and the thread plays in the eye between the points 6 and 8. In order to make the shank resilient enough to ermit of this movement I referably slot ti'ie shank back to a point slightly beyond the rear end of the eye as at 11. It will be noted that the rear point of the projection 7 is slightly raised and that the opposite side of the aperture into the eye is provided with a similar wall so as to prevent the thread from accidentally slipping out of the eye and becoming disengaged from the needle.

From the fore oing description, taken in connection with t e accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended ex lanation.

Various changes in the orm, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention as defined in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A needle comprising a shank, a point, an eye formed in the shank, a threading channel reaching from the outside of the needle to the eye, aresilient connection between the oint and the shank, and a projection-on the s anl: lying above said resilient connection and entering a recess formed in the point, said shank being slit beyond the eye to form said resilient connection.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

-OLINTON VAN am REEDER.

Witnesses:

CHARLES CLARK, A. T. IIERRMANN. 

